Wilhelm Meyer
German classical scholar (1845-1917) · Academics · Died at 71
Wilhelm Meyer was a German classical scholar, initially a librarian and literary scholar, who worked also on musicology. He became professor of Classical and Medieval Latin Philology at the University of Göttingen. He was known as Meyer aus Speyer, from his birthplace Speyer.
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Meyer wrote about the history of Greek and Latin hexameter poetry, famously suggesting the three Meyer rules for Hellenistic poetry.
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Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1845 to 1917 · aged 71
